1st International ICST Conference on Mobile Wireless Middleware, Operating Systems and Applications

Research Article

MWSMF: A Mediation Framework Realizing Scalable Mobile Web Service Provisioning

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/ICST.MOBILWARE2008.2797,
        author={Satish Narayana Srirama and Matthias Jarke and Wolfgang Prinz},
        title={MWSMF: A Mediation Framework Realizing Scalable Mobile Web Service Provisioning},
        proceedings={1st International ICST Conference on Mobile Wireless Middleware, Operating Systems and Applications},
        publisher={ICST},
        proceedings_a={MOBILWARE},
        year={2010},
        month={5},
        keywords={},
        doi={10.4108/ICST.MOBILWARE2008.2797}
    }
    
  • Satish Narayana Srirama
    Matthias Jarke
    Wolfgang Prinz
    Year: 2010
    MWSMF: A Mediation Framework Realizing Scalable Mobile Web Service Provisioning
    MOBILWARE
    ICST
    DOI: 10.4108/ICST.MOBILWARE2008.2797
Satish Narayana Srirama1,*, Matthias Jarke1,2,*, Wolfgang Prinz1,2,*
  • 1: RWTH Aachen, Informatik V Ahornstrasse 55, 52056 Aachen, Germany
  • 2: Fraunhofer FIT Schloss Birlinghoven 53754 Sankt Augustin, Germany
*Contact email: srirama@cs.rwth-aachen.de, jarke@cs.rwth-aachen.de, wolfgang.prinz@fit.fraunhofer.de

Abstract

It is now feasible to invoke basic web services on a smart phone due to the advances in wireless devices and mobile communication technologies. While mobile web service clients are common these days, we have studied the scope of providing web services from smart phones. Although the applications possible with Mobile Host are quite welcoming, the scalability of such a Mobile Host is observed to be considerably low. In the scalability analysis of our Mobile Host, we have observed that binary compression of SOAP messages being exchanged over cellular network have greatly improved the performance of the Mobile Host. While binary compression is observed to be very efficient, the mechanism has raised the need for an intermediary in the mobile web service invocation cycle. The paper addresses our mobile web service message optimization scenario, at the enterprise service bus technology based mediation framework, with evaluation results.